Re: Fontifying unterminated strings [was: CC Mode and electric-pair "problem".]

[João Távora]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

>> But what about when you write
>>     char *thedoc = "Here it is:
>>     - First do this
>>     - Then do that
>>     And that's it!";
>> Both cases are valid transient states.  Which one will occur more often
>> depends a lot on the particular kind of code you write and your
>> coding habits.
> I suggest the most common case by far will be writing
>     char *foo = "foo....
> in the middle of an existing buffer.

You can't know that, really.  It's not just the users of
electric-pair-mode, but users of other popular autopairing packages, or
those autopair manually.  Or users who mostly edit existing code.  One
could even speculate (just as tremulously) that more C code gets
maintained than written these days.

>> Emacs can't reliably distinguish the two cases, so whichever behavior it
>> chooses it will look "amateurish" in some cases.
> No, you've misunderstood my point.  It is not the aesthetic "niceness",
> the lack of which is amateurish; it is fontifying as a string something
> which isn't a string (as defined by the compiler's error messages).

It is just as wrong as fontifying something as C statements that isn't a
C statement.